List of Chancellors of Durham
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- Not to be confused with the Chancellor of the University of Durham
This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Chancellor of County Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
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- 1655–?: Thomas WiddringtonThomas WiddringtonSir Thomas Widdrington SL was an English politician and judge of the 17th century.He and his brother Ralph were of a junior branch of an ancient Northumbrian family and were distantly related to William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington...
- 1787–1788: John ScottJohn Scott, 1st Earl of EldonJohn Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon PC KC FRS FSA was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827.- Background and education :...
- 1788–1791: Sir John Mitford
- 1791–1798: Sir Thomas Manners-SuttonThomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron MannersThomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners PC, KC , was a British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827.-Background and education:...
- 1798–1818: Samuel RomillySamuel RomillySir Samuel Romilly , was a British legal reformer.-Background and education:Romilly was born in Frith Street, Soho, London, the second son of Peter Romilly, a watchmaker and jeweller...
- 1818–1835: Robert Hopper Williamson
- 1835–1846: Sir Charles WetherellCharles WetherellSir Charles Wetherell , was an English lawyer, politician and judge.Wetherell was born in Oxford, the third son of Reverend Nathan Wetherell, of Durham, Master of the University College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford...
- 1847–1851: Richard Torin Kindersley
- 1851–1871: Christopher Temple
- 1871–1887: James Fleming
- 1887–1892: Gainsford BruceGainsford BruceSir Gainsford Bruce was a British politician and judge.-Biography:Bruce was born in 1835 in Newcastle upon Tyne the son of the Reverend Dr. Collingwood Bruce a proprietor of a private school and his wife Charlotte ....
- 1892–1905: Thomas MilvainThomas MilvainThomas Milvain was an English lawyer and Conservative Party politician.Milvain was the son of Henry Milvain of North Elswick Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne and his wife Jane Davidson. Educated at Durham Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1869.In 1885...
- 1905–1915: John Scott Fox
- 1915–1930: Edward Tindal Atkinson
- 1930–1936: Sir Henry Arthur Colefax
- 1936–1950: Charles Paley Scott
- 1950–1958: John Charlesworth
- 1958–1959: James Neville Gray
- 1959–1960: Arthur Geoffrey Neale CrossGeoffrey Cross, Baron Cross of ChelseaGeoffrey Neale Cross, Baron Cross of Chelsea PC was a British judge.Geoffrey Cross was invested to the Privy Council in 1969. He was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1969 to 1971...
- 1960–1969: Henry Edwin Salt
- 1969–1971: Hugh Elvet Francis